“Studying the tens of thousands of chemicals on the market today one at a time is just not feasible, but evaluating six groups of chemicals of concern is much more manageable,” Arlene Blum, a chemist and GSPI executive director, told Mongabay.

The logic for grouping thousands of chemicals into classes, advocates say, is straightforward: Manufacturers switch within the same chemical class because similar structures often serve the same industrial functions, and often cause the same harm.

This sounds like a great idea to close the legal loopholes that allow the chemical industrial production to keep creating harmful synthetic compounds. Sure, this is hard to implement because of the tones of money that this industry spends in lobbying politicians, but still this is seems to be like a solution if regulated and implemented.